Oh rubs

You are getting too big too fast.  6 months last week. 

At your checkup you were in the 50% in height and weight, and 70% for head circumference.

I love how you sleep.

 

You watch Little Einstein's with Rockwell.

 

And you are a drool bug.

Look at your onesie. Everyday, all the time, it is like this.  I usually keep a bib on you but you go through them so fast I sometimes run out.  But its ok, look at how cute you are, with that little grin, I could (and do) kiss that face all day long, drool and all.

Best Friend Bumblebee

He sleeps with his bumblebee transformer all tucked in and everything.  For about five minutes we can hear bumblebee saying “bumblebee reporting for duty sir,” and his gun shooting. Then I go to check on him and everybody is sound asleep.  Love.

haircuts

If there is one chore I’m not too fond of besides bath time it is cutting hair.  Don’t even get me started on how I hate cutting Rockwell and Perry’s.  But because I have to cut the boys hair every month it isn’t much of an event.  The girls once a year trim deserves a post. 

I put cutting it off way too long and Eyla needed it bad.

silly things

This is my kids trying to make silly faces for the camera.  Look at Eylas hands and how hard she is flexing them and working for the face. 

Rockwells newest face.  He does that when he is mad or trying to be funny.  To get the full effect you have to imagine the sound of him breathing really hard in and out of his nose really fast while he makes those lips. 

And I love it because it reminds me of Eyla.

helpers

After painting up a dresser the kids helped me put the hardware back on and then the girls helped carry it upstairs singing “whats gonna work? team work!” all the way.

Sunday Best

Going to our new ward.

Curly

Curly sue, I love you!

Girls night out.

So anyone who knows me knows I’m not much of a “girls out night” type, I would much rather spend my evening at home with Perry.  BUT give me chance to take 2 of my favorite girls to the Tuacahn to watch Little Mermaid and I will go!  The only thing that could have completed the night would have been to be able to take our other favorite girl, Ruby, but kids under 2 can't go. 

Here we are all dressed up and ready to go to our fancy girls night out.  They wanted to wear their high heels (their 1 inch pumps that great grandma gave them)  because it was a fancy dress up occasion.  Too bad it got a little nippy up in the canyon and their feet started getting cold, good thing we took a blanket.

I LOVE the Tuacahn Amphitheater.  It is so rad.  In the picture below you can kinda see the red rock set in the left side of the picture.  Everybody should get the opportunity to go to this place at least once in their life.  Not to mention the special effects with the water specifically for the Little Mermaid show was incredible.

Ask them their favorite parts they will say, when Ariel and the prince get married and at the end when Ursula is nice and sings with everyone  (haha the curtain call).  By the way hands downs she was my favorite part, but not when she was nice when she was evil, she was hilarious :):). 

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Making cake the day before his birthday.  Yummy cake batter.

 

The finished product.  Check out his little hand trying to sneak. I love it!

That is him saying “BALL!!!”  Because that is how he always says ball, tons of enthusiasm.

He couldn’t stop looking at them, he knew what each one was and would point at them and call them by name.

 

So the little hand that did this was not Rockwells, it was Raya.  She got a spanking and had to sit in the time-out chair where she fell asleep.

Cute little stinker.

 

All his presents.  I don’t know where he learned to smile like that.  It’s hilarious but I hate that we hardly have any pictures with his real smile.  Oh well.

He has such good big sisters and they all love each other so much.  I love love love this picture!

 

          

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Big hits were his racket, indoor basketball hoop, and bumblebee transformer.

Chayse and Char gave him this cute blue camp chair, and had to throw a picture of baby Lux in here but we couldn’t get Rockwell to take his eyes off bumblebee.

 

Happy Birthday Rockwell Man!!!!!

Summer is Funner

We had a crazy fun busy summer.  Which is why I haven’t really blogged in forever, but I’m back now, for now, we’ll see how long that lasts eh? 

Check out why summer is funner….beware, this is a LONG post!

mid-june, ruby at 2.5 months.

 

June 24th we were able to take a day trip to Manti, the town was so much smaller than I remember it.  The temple more beautiful than I remember.  And it was super fun because the Pageant set was set up and so I got to point out the different parts of it to Perry and the kids.

After enjoying the temple grounds for a bit I showed them my Grandparents old house and my Grandpas old Dr. Office.  It was not the same.  Sad.

We ate burgers, fries, and shakes at Millers.  Yummy!!  There we met “Abinadi” from the Pageant.  That was fun, a plus for me because he is one of my favorites from the Book of Mormon.

 

On the way home we stopped in Cedar City to see Great Grandma and Grandpa Myers.

All Myers boys are so much the same.  I love them!!

Great Grandma Myers.  Nobody will ever know how grateful I am for this woman!!  I hope to be just like her.

 

We painted Ruby’s toenails for the first time for the 4th of July swimming party.

Let me re-phrase that….Eyla and Raya painted her toenails.

 

We threw Char a baby shower.  We couldn’t wait to meet her baby girl…..Now we have and couldn’t love her more!

 

Then we enjoyed the pool at Uncle Scott and Aunt Tams and partied for the 4th of July.  It was Perry’s 1st vacation in 3 years.  It was only 3 days and he could have used way more relaxation but we made the most of it, he loved every second.

We swam like crazy, the kids loved the slide and the diving board.  They got pretty good at some tricks.

 

We ate tasty tasty treats!! Courtesy of Aunt Tam, she sure knows how to throw a party!

Rockwell especially loves the slushies she makes.

 

Like I said, we made the most of it.  We were wiped out.

 

Waiting for the fireworks.

If you ever get a chance go to the North Salt Lake fireworks show.   They do an awesome job.  When we got back to St. George and on the actual day of July 4th we watched the fireworks here, Eyla kept saying these are too small and fell asleep.  Haha!

 

 

Later in July we had some visitors so we went and hiked the narrows in Zions.

Driving from the parking lot to the shuttle.

 

Hiking.  McKell is a trooper and carried Ruby a ton.

 

The squirrels are unbelievably tame.

 

This group of people stopped for 15 minutes just to watch my kids throw rocks and play in the river.  They were laughing so hard at my crazy kids.

 

Then I turned 26.  Yes, I am old.  When I turned 20 I couldn’t have imagined 6 years later I would be where I am or so happy.  Let the years keep coming baby!

Can you see my shoes?  Perry got me the cutest ever black heels  (I needed them)  I was shocked at his sense of style.  He says Eyla and Raya helped, but still he did awesome!

 

Just because she is so cute! (4 months)

Cute and getting so big, she is all over the place in her walker and sitting up like a champ. 

We loved having her with us all summer and are so glad she is part of our family, can’t wait to show her all about Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and everything!!!

 

 

 

Finally the 3 best things about this summer….

 

#1) We moved.  I have no pictures of our place because it is still in moving shambles.  I have 4 kids under 4 = much more important things to worry about.  Maybe by next year I can post pictures of our little place when it has finally come together.  Haha, heres to hoping.

#2) Can you guess who this is? 

Rockwell is potty trained!!!  It’s so great!

 

and #3) aka the very best thing

LUX!

 

ChaCha had their baby girl, Lux Charlotte Myers, on August 23rd.  I love them.  We are the coolest family ever, but I will award these guys a very close second.  Aren’t they so darling (I snagged this picture off their blog).

 

Lux is an absolute angel. We can’t get enough of her!  Here are some pics of us babysitting.  It was so fun!!

 

 

I can’t wait till next summer but in the meantime we are going to have so much fun.